Freire Lobo, Dao Tinto "Vigno" 2020

40% Touriga Nacional,30% Alfrocheiro,25% Jaen, 5% Tinta Roriz. Organic. After working and studying in Bairrada and Douro, Elisa Freire Lobo decided to come back home to Dão, where she established herself as the first woman winemaker in the region. In 2010 she set about restoring her family’s land, where olive groves and grazing pastures alternated with vines dating as far back as 1956. Elisa spent the first four years just “cleaning the land”—letting the residual herbicides wash out as she transitioned to organic methods. Her Vigno Tinto uses tannic Touriga Nacional and fruity Alfrochiero as a taut springboard for the lifted floral perfume of Jaen (known as Mencía in Spain).